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Phenylketonuria causes delayed mental and social skills, below average head size, hyperactivity, skin rashes, seizures, tremors, and intellectual disability.
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What type of autosomal disease is phenylketonuria?
recessive
Tyrosine becomes conditionally essential in what fatal disease?
Phenylketonuria
What are the possible symptoms to phenylalanine?
Phenylalanine is an amino acid. When someone is unable to break phenylalanine down, the condition is called Phenylketonuria. Phenylketonuria is usually diagnosed in newborn babies. Symptoms of phenylketonuria are seizures, tremors, small head size, delayed mental and social skills, and skin rashes.
Inheritance pattern of phenylketonuria and tay-sachs disease?
codominant alleles
The disease phenylketonuria is related chiefly to abnormal metabolism of?
a certain amino acid
What is the treatment for phenylketonuria?
The best treatment of phenylketonuria is a diet that is extremely low in phenylalanine during childhood. A person can also take fish oil supplements and iron supplements to help treat some of the symptoms.
What is phenylketonuria?
phenylketonuria
Does aspartame help people with the genetic disease phenylketonuria?
Aspartame is a sweetener that is made up of two amino acids, one of them is call phenylalanine. The digestive system of those who have the genetic disease, phenylketonuria cannot digest this amino acid. It wreaks havoc in their bodies; so it does not help but hurt. This is why there is a warning label on products with aspartame warning those with phenylketonuria that there is phenylalanine in the product.
What is Phenylketonuria PKU?
phenylketonuria
What is the link between the disease phenylketonuria and albinism?
Persons diagnosed with phenylketonuria must have a specialised diet to prevent further intake of proteins containing the amino acid "phenylanine hydroxylase". If this is not done, and there is no diagnosis, phenylketonuria can lead to severe consequences, one of which is albinism, and ultimately retardation. In other words: EARLY DIAGNOSIS IS IMPORTANT!
Can you prevent phenylketonuria?
No, but you can control it. I think it is a disease that is developmentally dependent with adulthood superseding the disease. In any case, in infants and toddlers one can control the disease by excluding foods containing, or rich in phenylalanine. Google this.
What is the medical term for return of disease symptoms?
Relapse is the medical term meaning the return of symptoms of disease. For instance, some people with multiple sclerosis have a relapsing/remitting pattern of disease, with periods of symptoms interspersed with periods of no symptoms.
